Sleeve-protector



B. YAEGER.

SLEEVE PROTECTOR. APPLICATION FILED MAY 31, ms.

1,378,081 Patented May 17, 1921.

WITNESSES //VV/VTO)Q fifd/r/e )Zeyer' 5.640% BX. ms ATTORNEYG a-UNlTED STATS EATItionj 'xlinenn, or con-emigre" ninrefi'rs, rammed-A.;

- SLEEVE-PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 17,1921.

Application filed May 31, 1918. Serial No. 237,396.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known. that I, BEATRICE YAEGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbia Heights, in the county of Anoka and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sleeve-Protectors; and I do'hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an extremely simple and highly efiiclent sleeve protector or protecting sleeve which may be constructed at a minimum of cost; and to such ends, generally stated, the mvention consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

The protecting sleeve is made from a single piece of flat flexible material 'cut in polygonal form to form overlapping angular flaps equipped with cooperating separable fasteners in triangular arrangement, as W111 presently more fully appear.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views. Referring to the drawings,

Figure 1 is a plan view showing tecting sleeve laid out flat; FFig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of ig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1; and

the pro- Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the sleeve protector with its flaps overlapping and se-' cured, as when applied onthe arm of a person whose sleeve or arm is to be protected thereby.

The body of the sleeve protector is made from a single flat piece 5 of flexible material. This material may. be rubberized or oiled silk or other cloth, or it may be a laundrable fabric. It is formed with a. front edge 6, rear edges 7 and side edges 8 and 9, all of which edges are preferably either hemmed or bound to give the proper finish. The rear edges 7 are at approximately ninety degrees to each other and they form an angular portion that will project nearly or quite to and underlie the elbow' ofthe'wearen- The edge -6 forms the frontof the cuff or protecting sleeve.- The "edge 8 and adjacent edge portion 7 form an angular inner flap 5 of the protector while the edges 9 form the angular outer. flap 5 of the protector. The inner flap 5 is'provided w1th three fastening membersin the form of spring heads 10 and the outer fla 5 is provided with three fastening memers n the form of sockets 11. The said fasten- 1ng members 10 and 11 are of the type known as glove fasteners in which the.

heads spring into the sockets 11. These cooperating fasteners are in reverse triangular arrangement when the protector is turned flat, as shown in Fig. 1, but when the flaps are overla ped as shown in Fig. 4, the cooperating f steners 11 and 12 are brought into registration and at the central portion of the protector 2 of the fasteners are circumferentially spaced, so that they fasten downboth the inner and outer portions of the overlapping flaps.

The edges 9 and the adjacent edge 7 form protector and not only give neat appearance to the protectorwhen applied, (see a very obtuse edge to the outer flap of the mum of cost, because in the first place, of V the small amount of material, used therein,

the small amount of work required to make the same. Moreover,'for shipping, it may be laid out flat and a large number thereof packed in a small space without wrinkling or damaging the protectors. If made of laundrable material, the protector can be very easily laundried, since it can be ironed or pressed out flat.

By overlapping the flaps of the sleeve protector and connecting the same by the triangular arrangement "of the three fasteners, the protector is given a stiffness on the upper arm portion which keeps the same lon itudinally extended when on the arm.

Vhatl claim is:

A sleeve protector comprising a body portion and a pair of substantially triangular flap t0 the overlapped portion of the first flaps adapted to fold, one over the other mentioned flap. 10

and over the body portion, a fastener for In testimony whereof I aflix my signature securing the flaps together at the Wrist porin presence of tWo Witnesses. V 7

tion of the protector, a fastener for secnr- BEATRICEiYAEGER. ing an extension of one of the flaps to the Witnesses: overlapped portion of the other flap, and an CLARA DEMAREs'r, V

additional fastener forsecuring the other BERNIQEG;BAUMANN. 

